Yahoo Mail Not Updating on iPhone X/XS/XR, Tips to Consider

Having problems connecting or logging into to your Yahoo email account? Seeing pop-up messages on your iPhone or iPad that iOS “Cannot Get Mail” or “Connection to the server failed?” Unable to receive or read emails, delete accounts, or add accounts using the Mail App or the Yahoo App?

We have seen many email related issues over the years on the iPhone.

Most are easily fixed by deleting the account and re-installing it. But some of the recent Yahoo mail issues are somewhat entirely out of the left field.

What is even weirder is that some of these problems appear only to impact a handful of iPhone X Series phone users.

If you are seeing your Yahoo mail not update on your iPhone X Series, you are not alone; there’s plenty of folks reporting similar issues on the yahoo technical support forum.

After speaking to Yahoo support at length, we have finally found a few tips that work, including uninstalling and installing the Yahoo mail app on your iPhone X/XS/XR.

Depending on your iOS version, you may also need to enter the following:

Port – 993

Requires SSL – Yes

Yahoo’s Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server Settings

HostName – smtp.mail.yahoo.com

The user name is your full email address–type this in, even if it says it’s optional

Enter your account’s password

Depending on your iOS version, you may also need to enter the following:

Port – 465 or 587

Requires SSL – Yes

Requires authentication – Yes

Once you enter all your Yahoo account details and server information:

Choose Next

iOS verifies the account information

If confirmed, tap Save to complete the set-up

If not confirmed, iOS asks you to edit and correct your entries

Lastly, go back to the Mail App and check if your Yahoo emails come through or are updating.

Switch Your Email Account’s Fetch Settings

Some users report that the updates work for some time and then pause all of a sudden. If you are facing that issue, you can try to switch the fetch settings to manual.

On the Accounts and Passwords screen

Tap on Fetch New Data and under FETCH set it to Manually

Once you have done this, when you are in the mail account, scroll down the screen from the top of the iPhone, and it should update your mailbox with the latest emails.

Wrap Up

This is by far not the best solution but is a workaround. We hope that Yahoo and Apple work together to get this issue fixed as many of us use Yahoo mail on our iPhones. The other resort is to use the Yahoo mail app on your iPhone until this issue is sorted out.

If you have found a better way to deal with this issue, please let us know in the comments below. Hope the step-by-step solution here was helpful to you.

Reader tips

Check that you are not always Bcc yourself on your email automatically. Go to Settings > Mail and scroll down to the Composing section. Toggle off Always Bcc Myself

Open a web browser using a computer Log in to your Yahoo Compose a new email and type in your own address in the “To” field Send that email and see if it arrives within 5 minutes If you receive it, your Yahoo account is working fine and the problem is on your device

2. Update your system and make sure you’re using the latest version of the iOS